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Chapter 5:
A purrfect plan
The operation took almost half an hour, they had to very carefully bring her into an artificial coma. The problem was her size, they had to give not even a hundredth of the normal drug dose. Constantly changing doses and needles they were finally able to find just the right size and dose. When the little girl finally slept they used some advanced technology scanners to locate and extract the Dust that had bound with her body and aura.
Outside of the operation chamber there were a few chairs giving people the opportunity to wait for whatever operation a friend, teammate or family member were undergoing. Three of those chairs were occupied by the sisters and the heiress of team RWBY. Weiss seemed busy studying and paid little to no attention to the girls next to her, even though there was no homework that was due to the next week.
Although the operation wasn't supposed to be life threatening, Yang was still very nervous about the whole ordeal. Probably even more so than her partner, who was the one that laid in the operation chamber. Her sister had her arm wrapped around Yang's shoulders, trying to keep her spirits high.
"Sis, you do realize the extraction of the Dust can only help Blake, right?" She asked, her normally childlike voice sounding soothing.
"Yes, of course I do. It's just that I don't know what to do," Yang said with her head hung low.
"About what?" Ruby asked, her head turning sideways a bit in curiosity.
"About Blake! Taking care of her and stuff, I mean, I can keep her safe for a couple of days; but what if she never changes back? What if she stays like this forever? If something happens to her it will be my fault," the blonde said her voice sounding a bit rough because her throat was tightening.
"So what is your solution- just leave her on her own? Let her take care of herself?" Ruby asked her sister sternly.
"No of course not! She wouldn't last a day! It's just that… I don't know… I just…" The blonde stammered her beautiful lilac eyes filling with confusion and sadness. Tears started to form in the corner of her eyes.
"Yang, keep your head together," the scythe wielder said more gently, trying to not distress her big sister more than she already was. It was very rare for Yang to cry, certainly in front of her little sister; but whenever she did, Ruby hated it. Not because her sister wasn't allowed to cry, but because Yang gets very, very upset when she cries and it wasn't easy for Ruby to cheer her up. "What if it's impossible for Blake to turn back, what will you do?"
"I would… I don't know Ruby, I'm scared of her, scared of Blake," Yang sniffed. Weiss seemed a bit awkward as the blonde next to her was crying, but she decided not to interrupt their sisterly heart-to-heart talk.
"What does your heart tell you?" Ruby asked, her voice almost a whisper. She suddenly remembered this sentence, the same girl who was crying in the waiting room used it once before when Ruby had to make a very difficult decision, about whether or not she wanted to jump 2 years and go to Beacon early. It had been hard for the little girl to say goodbye to all of her friends at Signal Academy. In the end it seemed like she made the right choice.
"M-my heart?" The blonde was confused.
"Yes Yang, your heart, what does it tell you?" Ruby asked again, louder and more excited than before.
Yang had to think about the question so the corridor went quiet for a bit. When she seemed to have an answer, she began carefully, like she was treading on thin ice: "My heart tells me that… how can I say this? I want to and will take care of her, even if she'll never be normal again, even if she will be a burden the rest of my life, I will take care of her and keep her safe until the end of time! If somebody wants to hurt Blake, they will need to get past me first, because she is the most important person in the world for me besides you and dad, more important than my own free time or my career as a huntress! Blake is my partner and, more importantly, my best friend!" Life was flowing more and more inside of her the more she spoke; it was like she heard the words for the first time herself, but deep in her heart she knew they were true.
Ruby was touched and ecstatic as she heard her sister's words. "So there you have it; that's what you have to do!"
"But-" the blonde began but her little sister interrupted her.
"No buts! That's what you have to do! Your inner self knows what you want much better than you do, so you'd better follow its advice; at least that's what you used to tell me." Ruby gave her older sister a comforting punch to the shoulder.
Yang looked up and sat straighter, her blinding smile once again present on her face. "You're right Ruby! I shouldn't even be overthinking this, it's so damn obvious!"
"That's the spirit!" Ruby exclaimed before remembering they were in the infirmary.
"Thanks sis! You know, you're quite good at cheering up people, it must run in the family!" Yang said with a wink.
The ice inside of Weiss cracked just a little as the two sisters next to her had their heart-warming conversation. She was beginning to care about them, and about Blake of course, although the ride of the monochrome duo had been quite a bumpy one. The warm atmosphere of the room completely changed however, when Yang made her joke. Weiss simply facepalmed and returned to tuning the two girls out. She had almost taken the blonde seriously. So close, Yang, so close.
Ruby didn't seem to get it as quick as the heiress. "But aren't we… You know what? Nevermind. I'll let you have this one."
The blonde just gave her a cheeky smile. "Wow, thanks sis, it must be Christmas morning and no one has told me yet," she said sarcastically.
"Seriously though, you should tell Blake that some day. What you just told me I mean." Ruby said.
Yang hummed. "I probably should, I'll think about it."
That moment the doctor came out of the operation chamber, making the girls freeze in place and their breathing hitch as they waited with pounding hearts for the doctor's explanation. Even though the operation hadn't nearly been as dangerous as that one time Ruby took an explosive bullet to the chest from Roman Torchwick, there was always a chance something could have gone wrong.
"The extract of the unknown Dust out of Miss Belladonna's body was a success. She has awoken and will be glad to see you all." The doctor said with a smile, "Miss Xiao Long, would you be so kind as to pick her up? She doesn't like other people trying to touch her, it seems."
The girl in question jumped out of her seat with a huge grin on her face as the other two let their breath they didn't realize they were holding go. "It really is Christmas morning! Blakey! Hold on, I am coming for you!" She shouted before rushing past the doctor into the room.
Ruby gave the doctor an excusing look. "Sorry for that, my sis is just really excited sometimes, even more than me. I would like to thank you on the behalf of our team, doctor…?"
It took a while before the doctor realized what she meant. "Oh yes, Jones at your service. Don't sweat it, I'm just doing my job. As for your sister, she has the right to be excited, it is her partner after all." He finished with a friendly wink.
Blake felt groggy as she had just awoken from the drug induced sleep. When doctor Jones had wanted to pick her up, she had weakly slapped his hand away in her almost drunken state.
She tried to straighten her thoughts but found out soon that she was unable to do so. The only thing that was clear in her situation was that the operation had gone smoothly, as she was seemingly alive.
Her body was slowly recovering from the drugs inside of her, she was able to stand up straight once again, although a bit wobbly. The only thing that was still bothering her physically was her eyesight. Everything looked unfocused, colors seemed to blend together and it was impossible to even see forms of objects.
Though what she could see was the huge yellow blob coming towards her at rapid speed. Before she knew the blob picked her up, making her yell in despair.
She stopped however as a familiar scent intruded her nose, having her guess who or what the yellow blob was. The warmth engulfing her body confirmed her thoughts.
"Y-yang?" she asked the yellow giant. Her voice was quivering a lot since she was still under the drug's effect.
"Don't worry, Blakey, I got you." The oh so sweet voice of her partner filled her ears. Blake's vision cleared up a bit as the drug in her body was slowly being worked out of her body. She could once again distinguish the forms of the blonde's face, which wasn't very difficult as her huge grin radiated throughout the entire room.
"Holongaveieenout?" Blake slurred, completely misjudging the fact she still wasn't entirely recovered.
Yang's laugh echoed loudly as she laughed at her friend's state.
'Those damn sleeping drugs, they should be forbidden!' Blake thought angrily, vowing to not even say one word for the rest of the evening. Her partner's outburst did let a small grin appear on the frowning girl's face. Yang's laugh was just so contagious.
Team RWBY made an immediate beeline for their dorm as they were both exhausted because of the long day and excited for the weekend. The weekend would be a little different from usual, as they had a mini Blake to look after, or at least Yang did. The blonde was actually a bit excited to look after her little partner, she was just so cute to look at.
As Yang unceremoniously crashed down on top of her bed, careful not to hurt Blake, she sighed relieved. You could say what you want about those chairs in the infirmary, they were definitely not the most comfortable ones on all of Remnant.
Lazily closing her eyes, she decided a nap was in order. She was almost able to drift into a deep slumber, but was interrupted as Blake's voice sounded from her hand. "Yang?"
The blonde simply hummed slowly as a response, too tired to form proper words with her mouth.
"I'm sorry to disturb you, but I'm a bit hungry. We haven't eaten anything since lunch." Blake said, her body had restored itself completely from the dose of drugs, allowing her to move and speak like a normal Faunus being once more.
"WHAT!? That's heresy!" The blonde exclaimed, her eyes flicking open. Blake was right, she had completely forgotten the fact that she was starving while she was waiting for the operation to finish. Jumping out of bed her scanned over to the clock on the wall. "The cafeteria closed down more than two hours ago! What do we do now?" Her panicked state made her little sister laugh while the heiress only gave her a glare as she was being disturbed from her work.
"Don't worry sis, me and Weiss brought you guys some sandwiches remember?" Ruby said, pointing towards one of the bags still scattered on the floor as the entire team was too tired to pick them up.
"Weiss and I." the heiress corrected without missing a beat, like it was some kind of automatism.
"You're our heroes! Thanks!" Yang said gratefully before starting to rummage through the bags with one hand, as Blake still occupied the other. It didn't take long until she raised her free hand above her head victoriously with two sandwiches wrapped in thin foil in it.
Putting Blake on top of a table that was not filled with all kinds of paperwork, Yang took a seat and started to unwrap both of the rather plain, but in their hungry eyes delicious looking sandwiches.
When Yang unwrapped the sandwich filled with tuna she plonked it down in front of the little girl. Blake was staring at her favorite treat hungrily, her mouth watered as she could almost already feel the heavenly taste of the glorious tuna. Yang was already inhaling her own filled with chicken when Blake noticed a slight issue while looking at the almost bus sized meal in front of her.
She tried to address Yang, but the blonde was too busy devouring her meal. Blake couldn't help but watch in awe as those huge, white, razor sharp teeth teared the chicken in pieces. It was both interesting and frightening, those teeth could rip her in half with a single bite.
Once again Blake felt a wave of anguish wash over making her shiver a bit. Goose bumps covered her revealed arms. All of a sudden she felt really small, being so close to the giantess and Yang not paying attention to the little girl on the table right next to her while she happily munched away at her sandwich.
Only when Yang finished hers she noticed her partner staring at her weirdly right next to her own sandwich. "What's the matter Blake, don't you like it?" she asked gently.
This seemed to shake Blake out wherever she had been with her thoughts. The strange look on her face disappeared, but Yang wouldn't so easily forget the thing in those golden eyes she vowed to never make appear again, fear.
Slowly shaking her head, Blake answered: "No, it's not that."
"Then what is it?" her partner asked confused.
"It seems that this sandwich is a bit too big for me," Blake answered truthfully.
Yang's hand facepalmed so hard that Blake jumped a few inch in the air out of surprise. "Wow, I didn't think about that, how stupid of me. Of course you can't eat that, silly me," the blonde scolded herself. "Hey Weiss? Do we have a knife somewhere?"
"No." the heiress answered without even looking up from her work.
"Alright, then I'll just have to improvise a bit," Yang said before grabbing the remaining sandwich and tearing a small piece off. She handed it over to Blake, who accepted it gratefully. The raven-haired girl was now able to eat, if not still a bit awkwardly, her well-deserved meal. The tuna was as good as she imagined it, she partially moaned while she ate as her stomach was completely empty.
Continuing to hand small pieces of bread, lettuce and tuna to her shrunken partner, Yang felt like a parent. Taking care of Ruby or Blake wasn't so different from each other after all. She even kinda enjoyed it, like it was her guilty pleasure. Normally Blake would act rather detached, but seeming she couldn't do everything on her own at this size, she had to ask her friends for help. It made her seem like far more of an open and social person, something Yang was trying to achieve since the day they met.
Ruby found it strangely calming, watching her sister feed her partner. Blake looked like child as she happily nibbled on her tuna, her ears wiggling happily under her little black bow. Ruby was afraid she would die inside if the scene got much cuter than that.
After a while Blake found she couldn't take one more bite, her stomach was already bulging a little, being filled with delicious tuna. Yang was just about to hand her another piece, but Blake lifted her arm to make her stop. "Thank you, Yang, but I'm afraid I'm completely stuffed right now."
Yang looked from her to the sandwich in her hand, there was barely even a dent in it. "Really? You didn't even eat a mouthful." She asked, giving the little girl a weird look.
"Well, that's probably because I am a mere five inches tall, remember?" Blake deadpanned.
This made Yang smile sheepishly. "Oh, right. Well I guess we could just relax a bit. It's a bit too early to call it a day just yet."
Blake yawned widely, forgotten how tired she was.
The blonde giggled. "I'll take as a yes." Picking Blake up carefully as she just ate, Yang made her way over to the improvised bunk bed on the other side of the room.
"Is it okay if I lay down on your bed? I can't really climb my own with you in my hand." Yang asked her.
"Sure." Blake answered simply.
Before climbing on top of Blake's bed though, Yang grabbed a book from the bookcase next to the beds. Putting Blake on top of the cushion, Yang sat down to pull of her boots before joining her partner. She sat a bit straighter by leaning against the wall.
Not forgetting about the little girl next to her, Yang gently scooped her up before placing her on her stomach which had come slightly visible as her yellow tanktop had slid up a bit.
To say that Blake was surprised by the change of scenery would have been an understatement. But as the soothing head that radiated from Yang's skin began to wash over her own body, she couldn't help but laying on her stomach, her arms and legs comically spread out, trying to come into contact with as much of the warm and smooth skin as possible before she closed her eyes contently. Like a cat laying in front of a fireplace.
Yang tried chuckling or making fun of the girl spread across her stomach, but found out that she surprisingly couldn't. Even though Blake was dollsized, she was able to feel every part of her body on her exposed skin.
When Blake stretched her limbs and yawned with the most adorable voice ever, Yang felt her heart melt completely. She couldn't take the sight anymore and decided to pay attention to the book she was holding. She had picked it at random out of Blake's collection as she herself didn't own many books.
Yang began unconsciously reading aloud, but with a soft voice, so only Blake could understand what she was saying. It was a weird habit she picked from the time she read to Ruby. Luckily for Blake, she was far too tired to recognize the way too familiar first lines of a certain book, her favorite book actually.
Without realizing what she was doing, Yang moved her free hand over to the little kitten sleeping on her stomach. She began rubbing it's head and back with her gentle fingers, like she was petting a cat.
That's when she felt little vibrations against her stomach and an unfamiliar sound intruded her ears. It sounded like a low and continual rumbling, Yang swore she somehow heard the sound before but she couldn't quite put it.
Realizing where the rumbles were coming from, Yang almost died of the amount of cuteness in the room. Blake was purring. And asleep it seems. Yang didn't know she could purr, why hadn't she known Blake could purr? When was her partner ever going to tell her?
On the other side of the room, Weiss had just finished her work and went to the bathroom to get ready for bed. Ruby on the other hand was staring intently at the black and yellow couple relaxing on Blake's bed. She was squealing inside while she pretended she was browsing through her weapon magazine. When she heard Blake making a weird noise, she couldn't take it any longer.
"Hey Yang?" She called out.
"What's up Rubes?" Yang asked, looking up from her book.
"Is Blake making that sound?" Ruby asked.
Yang gave a broad smile at this. "Yup! She's purring!" the blonde exclaimed happily, careful not to wake the girl on her stomach.
As her mind was trying to process this, Ruby literally fainted. She couldn't hold the cuteness of her Faunus teammate.
Yang simply giggled as her sister fell back on top of bed and continued reading her book aloud. It was surprisingly good, Blake really had a good taste for books. When she flipped the page and read the first few sentences, she stopped reading aloud immediately, as to not cause harm to the innocent ears of her sister. She couldn't help but read further while a small line of blood flowed out of her nose.
'Wow, Blake, I didn't know you were into this kind of stuff, you may look like a composed and quiet girl but inside you're probably almost as dirty as I am,' Yang thought as her wide eyes flew through pages. 'Alright that's enough for today, I should go to bed as well, today was probably the weirdest day in my life and I doubt I'm the only person who thinks that,' She scolded herself before putting 'Ninjas of Love' down, but not before remembering the page. After wiping the blood trail away, she gently scooped Blake up and stood up from the bed.
"Now to find this little kitten a place to sleep." She said against no one in particular. "On her own bed? No, that's too dangerous."
"How about your bed?" Weiss proposed as she walked back into the room, clad in her sleeping gown.
"Couldn't she fall out of it though?" Yang asked her as she tried to be careful with the sleeping girl in her hand.
"Why not make her some kind of nest? That way she can't fall out." The heiress argued.
"Great idea! It's purrfect" the blonde exclaimed, beginning to wrap her own blanket into some kind of bowl on top of her cushion.
"Thanks, I try," Weiss said before climbing into her bed. She was way too tired to put up with her blonde teammate and her stupid puns.
Yang carefully put Blake down into the makeshift nest. Her heart fluttered as the little girl grabbed the blanket tightly and rolled into it. Sadly, the purring stopped, making the blonde immediately miss it.
Yang gave her a gentle kiss on top of her head before whispering: "Good night."
A/N:
MORE BUMBLEBEE FLUFF!
Shout out to my two fantastic editors: Heatrules and Duranda1! They helped me a great deal while I was writing this chapter!
There we go, another one done. Sorry I'm a bit late, the end of the long line of homework is almost upon us! Hoped you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
Unto reviews:
To Heatrules:
Well thank you very much! Happy to have you aboard!
To The Crazy Saeko:
I'm looking forward to it as well! Should be in a couple of chapters, maybe next one, we'll see!
To uberparagon:
Thank you very much, it's an honor to write for you all! About the fluff, you asked and I delivered (hopefully)!
To NyanHellcat18:
I hope it's as good in the future! It certainly flows much better than my other story... It's also a lot more fun to write!
To Duranda1:
It's a very good story after all, probably my favorite! Once again, happy to have you aboard!
To dracohalo117:
You do give me an interesting idea, I hadn't originally planned to give Weiss's father an important role, but I may have to change that... Anyway glad you like it!
If there is anything you would like to see, just ask! (no promises though)
Review, follow and favorite and maybe mini Blake will purr for you!
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*Door flies open, Blake barges through weapon drawn.*
Me: Wha-?
*Blake looks around the room before dropping Gambol Shroud.*
Blake: What are you writing?
*Blake reads story and gets a weird look on her face.*
Me: Look, I can explain... Please don't hurt me!